Between the Girls (Basin Lake, #3)

Tyler Duncan’s life took an unexpected turn when, at the age of seven, he was attacked by a neighbor’s dog. The assault left him with emotional and physical scars and would eventually make him question his own manhood. Ten years later, after a painful breakup with his first love, Laney Barlow, and a response from him that would precipitate his family leaving Denver, Tyler finds himself in the small Eastern Washington town of Basin Lake for his last year of high school. While still holding on to feelings of love for his ex, he meets Claire Kessel, a girl as stunning as she is smart, a girl that just might help him forget everything bad in his life if he doesn’t manage to mess it all up.

Seventeen-year-old Claire Kessel has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. It’s a career choice aided by the passing of her father from multiple sclerosis when she was a young girl. She doesn’t want anything to get in the way of her goals, not boys and the drama they bring with them, or sentimentality for Basin Lake, the small town her mother and two sisters moved to ten years ago. But as she begins her senior year of high school, her beloved younger sister is keeping things from her, her ex-boyfriend returns wanting another chance, and a mysterious new boy named Tyler arrives in town, a gorgeous guy Claire can’t seem to ignore no matter how hard she tries.

Between the Girls is book three of The Basin Lake Series and may be read as a standalone novel.